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• Badly chosen metaphor of the day

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 440
  From The Evening Standard : Gordon Brown: I will keep alive the flame of Copenhagen What a colossal and utter twat. Copenhagen was all about extinguishing as many flames as possible, in a very literal sense.
  20 hours ago

• Out-pedanted

  
  John Rentoul — Authority: 551
  A super pedant takes issue with my earlier post attempting to out-pedant Paul Waugh on the spelling of Solicitor General. He said hyphen; I said not. It turns out that Hansard says Solicitor-General. But then it not only also hyphenates Advocate-General but Attorney-General too. Has she got ...
  3 days ago

• What the Solicitor General is missing

  
  John Rentoul — Authority: 551
  Top pedantry from Paul Waugh . Reporting on the Solicitor-Generals dog, he asks of Vera Bairds title: "Anyone know why its hyphenated, but Attorney General isnt?" I can answer that one. It is not hyphenated. Neither the Solicitor General nor the Attorney General take a hyphen, according to the Law Officers ...
  4 days ago

• Infer this.

  
  Read Roger — Authority: 532
  Magazine reviewer Jonathan Hunt offers his picks for the five best YA works of fiction this year over at NPR. I will nitpick that one of the choices is not fiction and another not YA but all five are good books. Three of them appear on our Fanfare list, which will be whizzing its way to your inbox in just one ...
  1 week ago

• No time soon

  
  John Rentoul — Authority: 551
  I read this far on Nick Robinsons blog : A million Afghans live in Helmand province. Nearly 100 British soldiers have died here this year alone. Raw painful facts but not enough to convince David Cameron that British troops should come home ... But no further. Just as I listened to his report on BBC News until ...
  2 weeks ago

• Things I’ve spotted December 4th from 22:11 to 22:41

  
  Podnosh Blog — Authority: 414
  Here are some of the things I’ve been reading December 4th from 22:11 to 22:41: The challenge of pledges | Created in Birmingham – Pledges to support local theatre/culture. Could they be adapted to strengthen local community? "# Attend 12 theatre shows in the next 12 months, 4 by West Midlands ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is It My Imagination…

  
  Anonymous Arabist ??? ????? — Authority: 122
  …or isn’t this woman a dead ringer for Emilio Estevez? Emily Ruete (1844-1924) was born in Zanzibar as Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman. Almost. Sayyida is not her name, it’s an indication that she’s supposedly a descendant of the prophet Muhammad, and I don’t know that “princess” is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Comma confusion, Comment Only Sunday

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 440
  B emailed me to say that the comma in my strapline was in the wrong place - the second sentence of the telegram should read "If not duffers, wont drown" Hmm. I replied as follows: Ah, seeing as the original was a telegram, there wasnt any punctuation at all, so well have to apply logic. I have always - for the ...
  4 weeks ago

• "English, mother******, do you speak it?"

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 486
  From Fridays BBC News website: That penultimate story is dreadful, isnt it? Imagine a refugee minister sending hate mail! It isnt until you click on the link that you realise that the minister actually received hate mail. And he isnt a refugee who happens to be a minister either... *sigh*
  4 weeks ago

• Peter Oborne, lying again

  
  John Rentoul — Authority: 551
  He says in his Daily Mail column today that Sir John Chilcot has two ts, when everyone knows that the chairman of the Iraq inquiry has only one.
  4 weeks ago

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